Farewell Performance

January 11, 1986

TORONTO — Nadia Potts, a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, will end her 20-year stage career in a gala performance of La Fille mal gardee at the O'Keefe Center on March 1. Potts, 37, was the first Western ballerina to dance opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov after he defected to the West in 1974. In recent years she has devoted most of her time to teaching.